The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
No pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
When the shrivelled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.
True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.[Единственный смысл жизни в том, чтобы познавать истину.]
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
Speak English! I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!
Sometimes surviving means compromise.
